No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

( Would she have been able to had she known that the blanket belonged to a young ballet dancer Nicolas had found his first night in one of Walter's marked bars??

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

The highroad, one might say at first, belongs to life, while the way to the churchyard belongs to death.

If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.

At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

But all the reports of this first embassy show that the two Savoyards were the heads of it, for they were the only ones who were empowered to swear for the king that he would abide by the pope's decision and who were allowed to appoint deputies in the event that one was unavoidably absent.

It might be well to consider the literary evidence first because it can provide us with an answer to one important question ; ;

He pontificates that `` one of the first signs of advancing civilization is the fall in the value of women in men's eyes ''.

But Adams was one of the first to suggest that this human incompetence was the only motivating factor behind religion.

There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.

But as he remarks in his preface to The Walnut Trees, `` a novel can hardly ever be rewritten '', and `` when this one appears in its final form, the form of the first part will no doubt be radically changed ''.

Another optimistic sign, this one from the Labor Department, was the report that the long rise in unemployment compensation payments `` was interrupted for the first time in the week ending Feb. 25 ''.

-- A first grader colors pictures one solid color, everything -- sky, grass, boy, wagon, etc..

Howard Mitchell and the National Symphony perform in the first two releases, designed for grades one and two.

The trouble is that at first glance the idea looks like such a good one.

East Greenwich was one of the first Rhode Island towns to enter into contract agreement with the Rhode Island Development Council for planning services we could not provide for ourselves.

Four of us here in the United States attended, first as students, then as instructors, almost every one of these schools, in England, Canada, and the United States.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

She had been one of the first to collect her wits.

He thought of her, the first one.

She'd found one and she hadn't said a word while Big Hans and I had hunted and hunted as we always did all winter, every winter since the spring that Hans had come and I had looked in the privy and found the first one.

Alex's instruction was rapid, for the doctor had to go off to the Rue Ecole De Medecine to hear more speeches with only time for one sip of wine to sustain him through them all.

By sharing the load of important speeches with his colleagues, the president can develop a cadre of able spokesmen who will help to create a public perception of the university as an institution, something more than the lengthened shadow of one man.

The hotly debated plan for the capital's Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, a circle of huge tablets engraved with his speeches ( and promptly dubbed by one of its critics, `` Instant Stonehenge '' ), is another of Udall's headaches, since as supervisor of the National Parks Commission he will share in the responsibility for building it.

As Douglas and the other candidates went through with their campaigns, Lincoln was the only one of them who gave no speeches.

Using kinship terms in political speeches increased audience agreement with the speaker in one study.

Ike's sense of responsibility was underscored by his draft of a statement to be issued if the invasion failed ; it has been called one of the great speeches of history:

Wearing a silver breastplate over a white velvet dress, she addressed them in one of her most famous speeches:

These short ( often one small reel ) films were often simple visual aids and accompaniments to live lectures and speeches, and were carried from city to city, town to town, village to village ( along with the lecturers ) to indoctrinate the entire countryside, even reaching areas where film had not been previously seen.

Douglass had met with Auld's daughter, Amanda Auld Sears, some years prior ; she had requested the meeting and had subsequently attended and cheered one of Douglass ' speeches.

Abraham Lincoln's carefully crafted address, secondary to other presentations that day, came to be regarded as one of the greatest speeches in American history.

Although in one of its early forms Godwin's law referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup discussions, the law is now often applied to any threaded online discussion, such as forums, chat rooms and blog comment threads, and has been invoked for the inappropriate use of Nazi analogies in articles or speeches.

Only two weeks before Kennedy had spoken in more conciliatory tones, speaking of " improving relations with the Soviet Union ": in response to Kennedy's Berlin speech, Nikita Khrushchev, days later, remarked that " one would think that the speeches were made by two different Presidents.

As Joachim Fest notes, Goebbels seemed to take a grim pleasure in the destruction of Germany ’ s cities by the Allied bombing offensive: " It was, as one of his colleagues confirmed, almost a happy day for him when famous buildings were destroyed, because at such time he put into his speeches that ecstatic hatred which aroused the fanaticism of the tiring workers and spurred them to fresh efforts.

The ceremony includes speeches by senior Israeli officials, an artistic presentation, a ritual march of flag-carrying soldiers forming elaborate structures ( such as a Menorah, a Magen David and the number which represents the age of the State of Israel ) and the lighting of twelve beacons ( one for each of the Tribes of Israel ).

Summoning them on the spot he transformed the crowd into an authoritative legislative assembly and began to harangue them in one of the more noted and effective speeches of ancient Rome.

The one radio station in the country aired the president's speeches and government propaganda.

During the surrender negotiations, Chief Joseph sent a message, usually described as a speech, to the soldiers which is often considered one of the greatest American speeches: "... Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired.

Kinnock gained attention in the United States in 1987 when it was discovered that then-Senator Joe Biden of Delaware plagiarized one of Kinnock's speeches during his 1988 presidential campaign in a speech at a Democratic debate in Iowa in August 1987.

Hence, many of the irregularities which have troubled scribes and scholars perhaps merely reflect the everyday usages of the careless and untrained tongues which Plautus heard about him .” Looking at the overall use of archaisms within Plautus, one will notice that they commonly occur in promises, agreements, threats, prologues, or speeches.

Though he left no handbooks, his speeches (" Antidosis " and " Against the Sophists " are most relevant to students of rhetoric ) became models of oratory ( he was one of the canonical " Ten Attic Orators ") and keys to his entire educational program.

In the 1970s Moon gave a series of public speeches in the United States, including one in Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1974 and two in 1976: in Yankee Stadium in New York City, and on the grounds of the Washington Monument in Washington, D. C., where Moon spoke on " God's Hope for America " to 300, 000 people.

Bryan's address helped catapult him to the Democratic Party's presidential nomination ; it is considered one of the greatest political speeches in American history.

The fourth rule, which banned nomination speeches, was the only one the party quickly abandoned.

At the siege of Harfleur, Henry utters one of Shakespeare's best-known speeches, beginning " Once more unto the breach, dear friends ..."